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From Baltimore came a message that Admiral Willson is "confined to home with a bad cold," but an aide stated that "no futher statement re Alexis case is either necessary or likely...
...were then taken to see Admiral Willson, the superintendent of the Naval Academy. After discussion with him, he gave Coach Snibbe and myself three choices: (1) to bench Alexis for the game, and Navy would bench a player of similar ability. (2) to take the game from Navy by forfeit. (3) to permit the Admiral to phone the authorities of Harvard in Cambridge. There can be no doubt that Admiral Willson repeatedly said that it would be impossible to play Alexis against the Academy, and if Harvard insisted, the Academy would forfeit the game...
Typical of this practice is statement in Associated Press today of Rear Admiral Russell Willson, of Naval Academy, in trying to place blame upon Director William Bingham of Harvard. A decade ago when William Bell was lineman for Ohio State, Navy pulled wires and persuaded Ohio State to send Bell, star first-string player, to scout another team the day of the Navy game. Navy has also ducked Negro members of swimming teams from Northern colleges...
Reference by Admiral Willson to colored cadet at Annapolis illustrates Navy standard of honesty, since this lad was literally driven from the Academy by the treatment accorded him by Midshipmen and Faculty members alike. Naval Academy action is of a piece with Navy policy which restricts Negro enlistments to mess attendants only, and illustrates perfectly hypocrisy of war-cry against totalitarian cruelties while practising same doctrines here in America. Of course Harvard should have refused to play. (signed) Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary, N.A.A.C.P...
...statement reported by the Associated Press last night, Admiral Willson claimed that the Navy always had and always will permit its teams to compete with other teams containing members of any races...